Science Tricorder, for real, looking for input

I seem to remember an early attempt nearly two decades ago..milky plastic...

Just call it a portable scanner.

Any RF and you need a HAM license?

 

Is another word for a ham licence, a shatner?

 

I'll give you one primary market for it: EVA users who are in space and need something small and fast to do diagnostical work with externally-accessed systems to effect repairs. Such systems will likely become regulated into being required on all spacecraft once the space age really hits, and many companies like Virgin and Tesla would likely be interested.

Imagine, an EVA tech outside scanning the hull of a satellite to do assessments on the micrometeoroid damage and determine penetration, presence of chemical residues (indicating blown fuel or presence of explosives indicating an attack), and whether or not there's electricity running through it still or if its shorting out.

Also, since these things have become so ingrained in pop culture, it's likely that they'll likely be argued at some point in the future to be part of the public domain because it's in the interest of the public to develop such compact systems. CBS stands to gain by permitting it, anyway, because people already associate them with the series, drawing more new eyeballs to their franchise.



...if tricorders such as this are being developed for the medical and scientific industries, and we know that the MIC is on average 40-80 years ahead of the public, what do you think that the black budget types have developed...?

 

What does the word "tricorder" mean anyway? It's just a made-up name that sounds a bit techy. Supposedly, it refers to its three functions - sensing, recording and computing - but that is a bit of a stretch. Personally, I don't care what it's called. Most people aren't Star Trek fans and they won't care either.

 

No, they won't care. But even non-Trek fans know what a Tricorder is. It's become ubiquitous and part of the vernacular thanks to our pop culture.

 

I doubt it, but I have no data.

 

I see what you did there.